Example sentences of "you have been " in BNC.
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| 31 | You 'd been to convent school as well , you said . |
| 32 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 33 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 34 | If you 'd been there , if you 'd seen the country , you 'd understand . |
| 35 | ( Anyone would think you 'd been offered the leading role in the latest Spielberg epic , for God 's sake , you 're supposed to be depressed or something . |
| 36 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 37 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 38 | I ca n't remember exactly when it was , but I know Oliver was tiny and you 'd been ill . ’ |
| 39 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 40 | So , if you 'd been knitting , you would have knitted one way and slipped the other . |
| 41 | Did n't you fantasize about what might have occurred if only you 'd been holding your breath at the time and a gun as well ? |
| 42 | He worked out where you 'd been kept prisoner . ’ |
| 43 | Losing the girl you 'd been sent to interview , ’ sneered Frank Galvone , standing closer to Hauser . |
| 44 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 45 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 46 | If you 'd been with me , I might have stiffened myself and gone on with it . |
| 47 | It was worse than if you 'd been single — you 'd no friends . |
| 48 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 49 | ‘ You said you 'd been transferred . ’ |
| 50 | I thought how thoughtful you 'd been . ’ |
| 51 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 52 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 53 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 55 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 56 | ‘ You told Tyler Beck you 'd been hit by a truck . ’ |
| 57 | You 've been very gentle with me , which makes it even worse ; perhaps if you 'd been more brutal I could have managed to stop … but then you would never be brutal . |
| 58 | My friend called me and said you 'd been to see him and were asking about a Russian cross . |
| 59 | ‘ That 's the same shit they used on you — the Doctor analysed some of it he scraped off the stones you 'd been handling . ’ |
| 60 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |